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California Fish and Inverts Study List Updated January 2018 California Fish and Inverts Study List Updated January 2018 Study these for Level 2 Add these for Levels 3-5 Contact [email protected] if you'd like to take any of the experience level tests (2-5) Damselfish Family Goby Family Blacksmith Bay Goby Garibaldi - Juvenile Blackeye Goby Garibaldi Bluebanded Goby Greenling Family Zebra Goby Kelp Greenling - F Grunt Family Kelp Greenling - M Salema Ling Cod Sargo Painted Greenling Sand or Left Eye Flounder Kelp Blenny Family California Halibut Giant Kelpfish Pacific Sanddab Island Kelpfish Speckled Sanddab Crevice Kelpfish Right Eye Flounder Prickleback Family C-O Sole Masked Prickleback Ronquil Family Monkeyface Prickleback Bluebanded Ronquil Scorpionfish Family Stripefin Ronquil California Scorpionfish Sculpin Family Black and Yellow Rockfish Cabezon Black Rockfish Coralline Sculpin Blue Rockfish Lavender Sculpin Bocaccio Rockfish Longfin Sculpin Brown Rockfish Scalyhead Sculpin Canary Rockfish Snubnose Sculpin China Rockfish Sea Bass Family Copper Rockfish Barred Sand Bass Gopher Rockfish Giant Sea Bass Grass Rockfish Kelp Bass Honeycomb Rockfish Spotted Sand Bass Kelp Rockfish Sea Chub Family Olive Rockfish Halfmoon Rosy Rockfish Opaleye Treefish Zebraperch Vermilion Rockfish Yelloweye Rockfish -Adult Yelloweye Rockfish -Juv Yellowtail Rockfish YOY Rockfish Wrasse Family Odds and Ends California Sheephead - F Bat Ray - Eagle Ray Family California Sheephead - M Cal. Lizardfish - Lizardfish Family California Sheephead - Juv Horn Shark - Bullhead Shark Family Rock Wrasse - F Ocean Whitefish - Tilefish Family Rock Wrasse - M Silversides - Silversides Family Senorita Tubesnout - Tubesnout Family Surfperch Family Angel Shark - Angel Shark Family Black Perch California Moray - Moray Family Kelp Perch Jack Mackerel - Jack Family Pile Perch Leopard Shark - Hound Shark Family Rainbow Seaperch Ocean Sunfish - Mola Family Rubberlip Seaperch Pac. Electric Ray - Torpedo Elec. Ray Fam. Shiner Perch Pipefish sp. - Pipefish Family Striped Seaperch Round Ray - Round Stingray Family Walleye Surfperch Sarcastic Fringehead - Tube Blenny Family White Seaperch Shovelnose Guitarfish - Guitarfish Family Spotted Cusk Eel - Cusk Eel Family Thornback - Thornback Family Wolf Eel - Wolf Fish Family Invertebrates - all levels (common names as listed in Gotshall's Guide to Marine Invertebrates, Baja to Alaska NON-NATIVE species marked in RED! Algae Arthropoda Asian Kelp Wakame Brown Rock Crab Bull Kelp Masking/Sheep Crab Giant Kelp Northern Kelp Crab Northern Sea Palm Coonstripe Shrimp Oarweed Red Rock Shrimp Southern Sea Palm Spiny Lobster Annelida Cnidaria Christmas Tree Worm Brown Gorgonian Colonial Sand Tube Worm California Golden Gorgonian Feather Duster Worm Red Gorgonian Orange Cup Coral Bryozoa Purple Hydrocoral Fluted Bryozoan Strawberry Anemone Lacy Bryozoan Tube Dwelling Anemone Northern Staghorn Bryozoan White Spotted Anemone Southern Staghorn Bryozoan Echinodermata Mollusca Bat Star Green Abalone Giant Spined Star Pink Abalone Leather Star Red Abalone Sunflower Star Chesnut Cowry Spiny Brittlestar Giant Keyhole Limpet California Sea Cucumber Gumboot Chiton Warty Sea Cucumber Kellett's Whelk Crowned Urchin Lewis' Moonsnail Purple Urchin Red Turban Snail Red Sea Urchin Rock Scallop White Urchin Wavy Turban Snail Eccentric Sand Dollar Opalescent Nudibranch San Diego Dorid Porifera Sea Lemon Cobalt Sponge Spanish Shawl Orange Puffball Sponge Red Sea Hare Red Volcano Sponge Red Octopus Two-spot Octopus Urochordata Lightbulb Tunicate Stalked Tunicate Styela Clava - Club tunicate REEF Experience Levels 2 20 question quiz on fish or invertebrates, 2 surveys, 80% passing score 3 100 question test on fish and invertebrates, 25 surveys, 80% passing score 4 100 question test on fish and invertebrates, 35 surveys, 90% passing score 5 100 question test on fish and invertebrates, 50 surveys, 95% passing score Contact [email protected] if you'd like to take an experience level test. For levels 3-5 you must have the required number of surveys already in the database before taking the test. For all tests you must know common name and family (fish) or phylum (inverts).
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